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Running a WordPress site is exciting but it also means you’re constantly battling spam registrations, fake accounts, and unwanted users. New User Approve works as a default WordPress registration system that does not let anyone sign up and instantly gain access. Because its your responsibility as a site owner as exactly who’s allowed into your site before any user log in.

New User Approve comes is a powerful WordPress user approval plugin that puts you in full control of your community, membership site, online store, or private portal. With this manual user approval plugin, you can moderate user registration, protect your content, and keep your website free from unwanted registration requests.
Whether you want to restrict user access before approval, prevent fake user signups, or simply make sure every new member is legit, New User Approve makes it easy, professional, and efficient.

⭐ Why You Need New User Approve ⭐

Imagine running a membership site, community forum, or private business portal where quality and security matter. The last thing you want is spam bots flooding your database or strangers sneaking into confidential areas.

New User Approve helps you:
⚡ Stop spam registrations and fake accounts before they ever log in
⚡ Verify user identities by reviewing each signup manually
⚡ Maintain complete control over who becomes part of your community
⚡ Create a safe, trusted space for your members or customers

Unlike generic WordPress plugins that simply hide login pages, New User Approve adds a true user verification before approval process. It gives you confidence to grow your site without worrying about who’s lurking behind those new user accounts.

🛠 How It Works

Here’s how New User Approve, your go-to member approval plugin, transforms your registration flow:

When someone registers on your WordPress site, you’ll receive an email alert. You can then decide to approve or deny their account. The plugin automatically emails the user to let them know the outcome.

👁If approved, the user receives their login details and can access your site immediately.
👁If denied, they’ll be kept out—and can’t even log in.
👁Pending users stay locked out until you make a decision.

This makes it simple to restrict user access before approval and ensure only the right people become part of your online community.

Already have users on your website? No problem.

Existing users stay approved automatically when you install New User Approve. You can also change someone’s approval status at any time, with easy search tools for managing pending, approved, or denied users.

⌛ Save Time with Zapier Automation

Want to work smarter? Connect New User Approve to Zapier to automate routine tasks.
For example:

Trigger a Slack message when a user is approved
Add approved users to a Google Sheet
Send emails through Gmail when someone’s denied

With Zapier, you can integrate the plugin with thousands of apps without writing a single line of code. It’s perfect for businesses looking to streamline their processes while maintaining strict user verification before approval.

🤝Invite Trusted Users Instantly

Sometimes you want trusted people—like staff, VIPs, or clients—to skip the approval queue. With New User Approve’s invitation codes, you can:

📜 Generate unique codes manually or automatically
💳 Give those codes to users so they’re auto-approved upon registration
💻 Manage, edit, or disable codes anytime
🛒 Seamlessly integrate codes with WooCommerce registrations

This feature makes it easier than ever to onboard important members without sacrificing security.

☀ A Fresh New Interface

New User Approve has been redesigned with a crisp, modern look that’s clean and user-friendly. The updated interface is intuitive for admins and gives users confidence in your website’s professionalism.

Whether you’re a WordPress beginner or seasoned WordPress user, managing new user approvals has never been easier or looked this good.

⭐ Compatible with Top Plugins

New User Approve integrates beautifully with popular WordPress plugins, including:

WooCommerce
MemberPress
WP-Foro
LearnDash
Ultimate Member
BuddyPress

So, whether you’re running a store, a membership site, or a thriving online community, this user approval plugin fits right in.

🖍 Customize Everything

For those who want complete flexibility, New User Approve lets you customize nearly every step of the user approval process:

Tailor the welcome message above the login or registration form
Personalize messages for pending or denied users
Craft unique notification emails for users and admins
Suppress denial notifications if preferred
Use HTML formatting in emails for a branded, professional look

There’s even a commercial add-on available at New User Approve that unlocks additional powerful features for businesses and growing sites.

📌 Documentation

Need help getting started? View the detailed technical documentation here. It walks you through every step of installing and configuring New User Approve, plus troubleshooting tips if you get stuck.

🔥 New User Approve Pro Features

Upgrade to the premium version for advanced features like:

✔ Customizable Email Notifications
✔ Invite-Only Registration
✔ Bulk Invitation Code Generator
✔ Email Invitation Codes
✔ Import Invitation Codes
✔ Auto-Approve Trusted Email Domains
✔ Blacklist Generic or Suspicious Email Domains
✔ Registration Deadlines
✔ Auto-Approve Selected User Roles
✔ User Role Change Requests
✔ Extended Zapier Triggers

✨ Translations

New User Approve is already available in many languages thanks to an amazing community of translators. You can help expand translations further with tools like Poedit.

Current supported languages include:

Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.

New User Approve isn’t just a plugin. It’s your ultimate solution for user verification before approval, helping you moderate user registration, prevent fake user signups, and stop spam registrations for good.
If you need a reliable manual user approval plugin for WordPress, get it now!

Screenshots

New & Improved Dashboard.
Real Time Dashboard Alerts.
Manual User Approval.
Invitation Codes.
Add Invitation Code.
Integrations.
Settings.

Installation

Upload new-user-approve to the wp-content/plugins directory or download from the WordPress backend (Plugins -> Add New -> search for ‘new user approve’)
Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
No configuration necessary.

FAQ

Why am I not getting the emails when a new user registers?

The New User Approve plugin uses the functions provided by WordPress to send email. Make sure your host is setup correctly to send email if this happens.

How do I customize the email address and/or name when sending notifications to users?

This is not a function of the plugin but of WordPress. WordPress provides the wp_mail_from and wp_mail_from_name filters to allow you to customize this. There are also a number of plugins that provide a setting to change this to your liking.

What happens to the user’s status after the plugin is deactivated?

If you deactivate the plugin, their status doesn’t matter. The status that the plugin uses is only used by the plugin. All users will be allowed to login as long as they have their username and passwords.

Are there any known issues with the New User Approve plugin?

We are aware of a few issues with multisite
1. The status filters on users.php do not work correctly
2. The bubble that shows next to the users link to show the number of pending users does not show

Reviews

dsiv 11 julija, 2025

I wanted a way to better handle user account requests (a.k.a., registration) on our website. New User Approve appeared to be and is definitely an awesome plugin for our website. I love that I can modify all the WP messages regarding account requests and login. I have requested support a few times and the support department is exemplary. My most recent request for help resulting in me learning about their whitelist and blacklist domain options. Our site has been receiving spam account requests and the blacklist option is just what we needed.

1839lab 13 marca, 2025

Great plugin to manage user access to your site. Also useful to prevent spam users from accessing directly.

dbluedude 8 januarja, 2025

Our eCommerce site came under a bot attack resulting in hundreds of failed transactions and fake user accounts. It took a few days to fix the issue, but because I was using New User Approve, we were able to deny the fake accounts access to our user base.

susquad 28 oktobra, 2024

The plugin is great and works for what it is intended for. We had some conflict with a process we needed for our website and support helped us find a solution for it. So great addition and great support.

Lou Friedman 4 oktobra, 2024 1 reply

Doesn’t actually do much. No bulk deny in free version. Can’t turn off admin emails in free version. Actually creates more of an admin headache. Uninstalling soon.

mb100200 13 avgusta, 2024 1 reply

I am a paid customer. Support is terrible. Still no response from my ticket submitted a couple weeks ago. The plugin performs a basic function. Recommend considering an alternative.

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Contributors & Developers

“New User Approve” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

“New User Approve” has been translated into 11 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “New User Approve” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

2.6.5.2

Tweak – Tested Upto WordPress Latest Version 6.8

2.6.5.1

Tweak – Security Fixes.

2.6.5

Fixed – Freemius SDK Update.

2.6.4

Fixed – Minor bug fix and improvements.
Fixed – Security issues.

2.6.2

Fixed – Minor bug fix and improvements.

2.6.1

TWEAK – Compatible with WordPress Version 6.6.x.

2.6

NEW: Pagination has been added to the Approved/Denied/Pending users list.
NEW: “Pending user” trigger has been added to the Zapier Integration.
Improvement: Code has been optimized and improved.
Improvement: Action buttons alignment has been adjusted in the Approved/Denied/Pending tabs.
Fixed: The Welcome/Pending Email does not fire when the user registers through the WooCommerce Registration Form.
Fixed: Translation issues with Admin and User Email Notification Strings have been resolved.
Fixed: Issues with the NUA filter at the bottom of the user’s list page have been addressed.

2.5.3

Tested and Compatible up to WordPress v6.4.2

2.5.2

Fixed – Bug preventing the notice from showing on admin page.

2.5.1

Improvement – Updated Feedback library to the latest version.

2.5

Updated localization – pot file updated, French and Italian po mo updated.
Fixed – Approve button color issue.
Fixed – Duplicate text message on user registration by invitation code.
Fixed – Rest API notice.
Improvement – When using invitation code user will not be created if invition code is not given or incorrect invitation code is used.
Improvement – When user successfully registers via invitation code the welcome email not sent, instead Approve email is sent and success message appears.

2.4.1

Tweak – Security Fixes

2.4

Tweak – Code improvement

2.3

Added – Zapier Integration
Added – Filter Hook to Filter password before user creation.
Added – Search approve, deny and pending users.
Improvement – Code Optimization.

2.1

Updated Freemius SDK Version 2.4.3

2.0

Updated- Plugin menu.
Added- the invitation code functionality.
Improved backend UI.

1.9.1

Added filter to enable/disable auto login on WooCommerce checkout, by default it will be enabled.

1.8.9

Issue in user search functionality.

1.8.8

Freemius Library Updated.
‘View all user’ filter not working in users page.
Disable auto login on WooCommerce checkout.

1.8.7

Upgrade to pro menu fixed.

1.8.6

Code optimization.

1.8.5

Added: Support for reCaptcha on default Login and Registration page.

1.8.4

Added: User registeration welcome email
Added: Action Hook – new_user_approve_after_registration
Added: Filter Hook for modify welcome email subject – new_user_approve_welcome_user_subject
Added: Filter Hook for modify welcome email message – new_user_approve_welcome_user_message

1.8.3

Updated Freemius SDK Version 2.4.1

1.8.2

Code Optimization

1.8.1

Tested upto WordPress version 5.5
Tested for compatibility with Memberpress
Added: Compatibility for WooCoommerce

1.8

Tested with WordPress 5.4
Code Optimization

1.7.6

Fixed: Formatting of readme.txt had line breaks where they should have been
Fixed: Fix how deny_user() gets user_email
- Courtesy of jrequiroso
- https://github.com/picklewagon/new-user-approve/pull/22
Fixed: Show unapproved user error message when the user attempts to reset password
Updated: Swedish translations
- Courtesy of adevade
- https://github.com/picklewagon/new-user-approve/pull/59
Updated: Updates to admin approval screen
- Courtesy of adevade
- https://github.com/picklewagon/new-user-approve/pull/60
Added: Don’t allow a super admin to be denied or approved
- https://github.com/picklewagon/new-user-approve/pull/19
Added: readme.md to show content in github

1.7.5

Fixed: User status filter in admin was not using database prefix
- Courtesy of Oizopower
- https://github.com/picklewagon/new-user-approve/pull/50
Fixed: Optimize user status list so it can be used with many users
Fixed: Updated transient to populate with user counts instead of user list
Updated: Modify output of user counts on dashboard
Updated: Polish translations
- Courtesy of pik256
Added: Missing string to translation file
- Courtesy of spaszs
Added: Bulgarian translation
- Courtesy of spaszs

1.7.4

Fixed: Corrected erroneous SQL query when filtering users
Fixed: User filters
- Courtesy of julmuell
- https://github.com/picklewagon/new-user-approve/pull/44
Fixed: Show a user status in the filters only if at least one user has that status

1.7.3

place content in metaboxes in place of dynamically pulling from website
tested with WordPress 4.3.1

1.7.2

tested with WordPress 4.1
fix translation bug
add bubble to user menu for pending users
- Courtesy of howdy_mcgee
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-number-of-pending-users#post-5920371

1.7.1

fix code causing PHP notices
don’t show admin notice for registration setting if S2Member plugin is active
fix issue causing empty password in approval email
update translation files

1.7

email/message tags
refactor messages
send admin approval email after the user has been created
tested with WordPress 4.0
finish updates in preparation of option addon plugin

1.6

improve actions and filters
refactor messages to make them easier to override
show admin notice if the membership setting is turned off
fix bug preventing approvals/denials when using filter
add sidebar in admin to help with support
unit tests
shake the login form when attempting to login as unapproved user
updated French translation

1.5.8

tested with WordPress 3.9
fix bug preventing the notice from hiding on legacy page

1.5.7

fix bug that was preventing bulk approval/denials

1.5.6

add more translations

1.5.5

allow approval from legacy page

1.5.4

fix bug that prevents emails from being sent to admins

1.5.3

add filter for link to approve/deny users
add filter for adding more email addresses to get notifications
fix bug that prevents users to be approved and denied when requested
fix bug that prevents the new user email from including a password
fix bug that prevents search results from showing when searching users

1.5.2

fix link to approve new users in email to admin
fix bug with sending emails to new approved users

1.5.1

fix bug when trying to install on a site with WP 3.5.1

1.5

add more logic to prevent unwanted password resets
add more translations
minor bug fixes
use core definition of tabs
user query updates (requires 3.5)
add status attribute to user profile page
integration with core user table (bulk approve, filtering, etc.)
tested with WordPress 3.6
set email header when sending email
more filters and actions

1.4.2

fix password recovery bug if a user does not have an approve-status meta field
add more translations
tested with WordPress 3.5

1.4.1

delete transient of user statuses when a user is deleted

1.4

add filters
honor the redirect if there is one set when registering
add actions for when a user is approved or denied
add a filter to bypass password reset
add more translations
add user counts by status to dashboard
store the users by status in a transient

1.3.4

remove unused screen_layout_columns filter
tested with WordPress 3.4

1.3.3

fix bug showing error message permanently on login page

1.3.2

fix bug with allowing wrong passwords

1.3.1

add czech, catalan, romanian translations
fix formatting issues in readme.txt
add a filter to modify who has access to approve and deny users
remove deprecated function calls when a user resets a password
don’t allow a user to login without a password

1.3

use the User API to retrieve a user instead of querying the db
require at least WordPress 3.1
add validate_user function to fix authentication problems
add new translations
get rid of plugin errors with WP_DEBUG set to true

1.2.6

fix to include the deprecated code for user search

1.2.5

add french translation

1.2.4

add greek translation

1.2.3

add danish translation

1.2.2

fix localization to work correctly
add polish translation

1.2.1

check for the existence of the login_header function to make compatible with functions that remove it
added “Other Notes” page in readme.txt with localization information.
added belarusian translation files

1.2

add localization support
add a changelog to readme.txt
remove plugin constants that have been defined since 2.6
correct the use of db prepare statements/use prepare on all SQL statements
add wp_enqueue_style for the admin style sheet

1.1.3

replace calls to esc_url() with clean_url() to make plugin compatible with versions less than 2.8

1.1.2

fix the admin ui tab interface for 2.8
add a link to the users profile in the admin interface
fix bug when using email address to retrieve lost password
show blog title correctly on login screen
use get_option() instead of get_settings()

1.1.1

fix approve/deny links
fix formatting issue with email to admin to approve user

1.1

correctly display error message if registration is empty
add a link to the options page from the plugin dashboard
clean up code
style updates
if a user is created through the admin interface, set the status as approved instead of pending
add avatars to user management admin page
improvements to SQL used
verify the user does not already exist before the process is started
add nonces to approve and deny actions
temporary fix for pagination bug